[andy popp]

I was in Flagstaff for about a week in the middle of summer last year and it never got that hot, plus some of the climbing is at higher altitudes than the city.

[SA Chris]

True enough, guess you can get up higher, I just remember sweating my way up cracks at Oak Creek Overlook in September

[cheque]

Is Boulder a city?

By the US definition anywhere over 2500 inhabitants is a city. I reckon Boulder would pass out definition too though.

I once read an interesting article in a copy of Climbing magazine that ranked US cities using SCIENCE- in fact a bewildering variety of statistical categories. It was somewhere unexpected (to me at least) that came out on top, i.e. not Boulder or Salt Lake. It think it was in New Mexico, Arizona or possibly even Texas.

I get the impression that Las Vegas has year-round climbing possibilities. There are loads of US states with lots  of climbing that non-Americans never think of too, but you have to take what they say with a pinch of salt as they think nothing of driving absurd distances of course.

[SA Chris]

I get the impression that Las Vegas has year-round climbing possibilities.

say 30 mins drive and there be overhanging crags.

From Downtown LV I think this would be a bit of a push to Red Rocks, but depends where you are located. In midsummer you won't have much that won't be absolutely frying, and quite a drive up to the higher altitude stuff.

But we digress.